Intelligence-as-prediction/compression is a pretty familiar idea to LWers; there are a number of posts on them which you can find by searching, or you can try looking into the bibliographies and links in:
(I have no comments anent On Intelligence specifically. I remember it
as being pretty vague as to specifics, and not very dense at all—unobjectionable.)
Intelligence-as-prediction/compression is a pretty familiar idea to LWers; there are a number of posts on them which you can find by searching, or you can try looking into the bibliographies and links in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Hutter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber
(I have no comments anent On Intelligence specifically. I remember it as being pretty vague as to specifics, and not very dense at all—unobjectionable.)